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Click here for Etymologies of Bible Phrases ie the origin of the words in Hebrew (OT) and Greek (NT) and the way the meanings have changed through timebased on 2008 years of The Father — Adam to Abraham, 2008 years of The Son — Isaac to Jesus, 2008 years of The Holy Spirit — Establishing the Kingdom, then a statement of "peace" on Rosh Hashanah in Sep 2006 (click here to see this timeline).

Click here for the timeline of the history of the world's calendar and click here for today's time zones.

Click here for the timeline of money along with Jesus's words in the New Testament.Click here for the timeline of inflation as seen in English, and then in Australian wages, after the Roman era.Click here for the timeline of inflation in today's other major currencies. Includes Bitcoin.Click here for Australia's early years. How did everyone in Australia really survive before banks Click here for the timeline of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) 2007-2008.Click here for the major currencies employed at BIS Bank for International Settlements in foreign exchange trade. "Make friends for yourselves with unrighteous mammon." This is where governments have to get involved, or if functioning as an unyielding monopoly, not, to much angst. Trade now totals $US 5 trillion daily since the GFC, up from $US 1 trillion daily in 2001.

Click here for the timeline of the Internet 1969-2017.Click here for How Google Works. Click here for the timeline of the computer language through its four generations.Click here for the Background to BIOS and UEFI Firmware

Click here for the timeline of Adam, 6,027 years (in 2010 AD) from when God's logia in Adam first raises its headreconciling the Hebrew calendar with the Christian calendar
Eden→Eden with David the Shepherd King born the 3014th yr in the middle
noting that our earliest cuneiform writings go back to ca. the 34th century BC.

Click here for the Jubilees, with June 7 1967 occurring in the 70th Jubilee.

Click here for audible pronunciations of the name of Jesus in Aramaic, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese as well as suggestions regarding the ancient Latin and Greek

Click here for the Nations descended from Noah as documented by the Jewish historian Josephus around 100 AD.Click here to see today's population, the world now numbering over seven billion descendants — the large nations of China, of India, and the layout of the other world's nations showing their "declared" Muslim / Christian allegiance(s). Also showing a weighted average life span (Life Expectancy at birth) of 70 years 69.82 to be exact over all the world.Click here to view these statistics resorted by population size which displays (at the end) this weighted average of 69.82 years.Click here for the timelines of the UN, NATO, and the EU's 28 countries.

Click here for another picture in space and time: God's Plan of Love — Building His Body / Family.

First Words regarding Australia in 1606

Who owns Australia, anciently referred to as terra australis incognita (Latin) - "unknown land of the south"? The words came just over 400 years ago: La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo - Australia of the Holy Spirit (click to hear the song), without the preceding "Terra" that had previously been used. These Spanish words were spoken by a spiritually minded Portuguese navigator with an Austrian king as his Spanish monarch on Pentecost Sunday, May 14th 1606 — were then adjusted and published in English (and Spanish) in 1625 as Australia del Espiritu Santo by Purchas, vol.iv, p.1432 — then changed again in Lieutenant James Cook's journal to Astralia del Espiritu Santo in 1770.

But Cook was noting that, even as Quirós proclaimed this to be the new name for the land he had been seeking — Terra Australis — south to the Pole, he had actually been on a small island group (Vanuatu) well to the east. Click here to see a copy of his map. And Quirós's second in command Torres had sailed on and come through Torres Strait, possibly sighting the hills of Cape York, but if so, taking no further notice.

Yes, mistakes occurred as so often happens when we "can't see the big picture". Still, later English writers declared their ongoing preference for Quirós's word though minus that first "i" . So, while English explorer James Cook now named the east coast New South Wales using an incomplete map of New Holland — yes, it had been named this by Dutch explorer Tasman in 1644 — both Matthew Flinders' chart in 1798-1804 and Governor Macquarie's letter in 1817 strongly recommended that the whole country reclaim the name Australia. Official recognition by the British Admiralty came in 1824.Click here for more background on the naming of Australia.

Freedom and youth in 2006

Now click here to read about a get-together with vibrant imagery — tree-planting and "bread-breaking", between our recent Australian leader (John Howard)'s family, and American leader (George Bush)'s family on Sunday, May 14th 2006, a special day.

Firstly, it was the 400th anniversary of Quirós's proclamation

Secondly, it was the 200th anniversary of the successful English petition in 1806, when 2000 signatures laid before the House of Lords saw the abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire inside the year. It came at the time of London's rapid rise as a ruling "world city", the English navy ruling the seas, the English pound starting to rule the world's money markets, click here re the history of money, and along with new communications systems and a free press, the English language starting to rule the world's languages (e.g. Nigeria in Africa, India and Australia in Asia, U.S.A. in America), bypassing French as first or second language of countries everywhere.Click here for interesting pictures in the origin of that word "English".

Thirdly, as second Sunday in May, it was worldwide Mother's Day.
Let us examine those scriptures on "Mother".

But Jerusalem above is free which is the mother of us all. Galatians 4:26
Yes, Jerusalem above is the heavenly mother, a kingdom that shines forth in wisdom — clarity. CS Lewis speaks of her as the enduring invisible church "terrible as an army with banners".
Further pictures on mother and child with John's vision in Revelation 12, see also Revelation 21, Genesis 4:25-26, Song of Solomon 8:5-7, Proverbs 8, and Proverbs 31.

Yes, free, along with her children.

And from the depths of a Tasmanian gold-mine to the snowy heights of Mt Everest, May that year certainly majored in Aussies being rescued. Click here for that last one. In June, the joy (and agony) of participating in world cup soccer. Click here for a short email sent via Col Stringer. In September, the worldwide sadness, as major news websites went into meltdown, at Steve Irwin's sudden death. Click here for one writer's review.
Whether we live or die, win or lose, there is enormous appeal in the freedom, the enthusiasm in someone like Steve's young, childlike (though a cynic would say childish) Aussie playfulness. To quote Bono: "things that really communicate universally are humour(surprised by joy), grace & strength of character" - three things often seen in little children. ok, not always at the same time

Truly, unless you about face, become as children, you shall not go in. Matthew 18:3The word for child is "paidion", linked to "paideuo" meaning one who is trained up: chastened, and corrected.
See too Luke 7:35-50 regarding Wisdom and her children.

Enslavement and age in Palestine — Jerusalem below. Galatians 4:25, Isaiah 50:1
Sadly the contrasted worldview of shame(pale, confused & distracted), blame and guilt can intimidate and bind us all so easily.
On August 14th 2006 (3 months following that Mother's day) a U.N. brokered truce was announced for Hezbollah and Israel — provisionally reckoned "a messy draw" by Greg Sheridan, foreign editor at "The Australian". Seen by many as a proxy war, the latest episode in a 2300 year conflict involving the South (Egypt), North (Syria/Iran) and Jews in the middle - click here. Then, under provocation on February 14th 2007 (6 months later), John Howard declared in Parliament why he was so adamant about keeping 1400 Australian personnel in Iraq to support US troops. "A defeat in Iraq for the US would be more than bad for the war against terrorism; it would be catastrophic," Mr Howard said. "It would lead to not only a bloodbath in Iraq but the destabilisation of Saudi Arabia and Jordan and the end of any real hope of getting a Palestinian peace settlement. It would also embolden the terrorist cause in our part of the world."

Latest news on Israel and the Middle East

Click this map of Israel, another young yet ancient nation, prophetically entrusted with the oracles, the sayings of God Romans 3:2, for "Deep inside the plucky country" by Greg Sheridan in The Australian. Plucky, but hemmed in.Click Here for the latest News on Israel and Palestine — as at July 28th 2017.

Click here to see the population growth in this land that now encompasses Israel, West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1920 it showed just 737 thousand but in 2017 there were 8 million in Israel, 3 million in the West Bank and 2 million in the Gaza Strip. Further east in the land that now encompasses Jordan, in 1920 it showed 675 thousand but in 2017 about 7 million. Further east again in Iraq, in 1920 it showed 3 million, but in 2017 about 37 million. Further east again in Persia (Iran), in 1920 it showed 11 million, but in 2016, 80 million. Yes, phenomenal growth, due in part to the abolition of slavery and the discovery of oil. Click the appropriate country to see similar growth in the north, in Lebanon845 thousand to 6 million and Syria2 million to 18 million, in the south, in Egypt13 million to 93 million and Saudi Arabia2 million to 32 million.

Current faith demographics on Israel's population of about 8 million show 75% to be Jewish, 2% Arab Christian, 1½% Druze, 18% Muslim and 3-4% nominally "other or none". In the 2011 census, non-Arab Christians estimated to number 25,000 (including "Messianic Jews"), were counted as "Jews and others". An important point, interfaith marriages are not permitted, when marrying in Israel, both parties must always be of the "same faith". Disputed East Jerusalem currently holds about 300,000 Palestinian Arabs and 200,000 + Israeli Jewish settlers. Then outside of Israel proper, about 2 million live in the Gaza Strip (99% Muslim), and about 3 million live in the West Bank (about 82% Muslim, 2% Christian, 15% Jewish settlers).

Click here for Wikipedia's latest historic perspective on the State of Palestine, a non-member observer state within the United Nations since November 2012, recognized as a "proper, separate nation" by some, and "definitely not" by others.

Click here for Rulers of Syria (in the north) 1920-2016, and a map of who controls what in its civil war.

Click here for an article on the Turkish President, following his friendly overtures to Russia, Saudi Arabia, and most recently, Iran, with US President Trump saying the US shouldn't criticize the purges, and seeing him as a partner in beating ISIS.

Prophecy

No prophecy (of scripture) ever came under human initiative, no, holy men received inspired utterance under the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:21

"Iran has already threatened to bomb Israel's cities with its long-range missiles" - The Australian, Dec 15, 2009.Click here for a built-in prophecy regarding the above statement in Isaiah 22. It shows Jerusalem fleeing together for mutual support as death occurs, not from close combat but from archers (or rockets). The warring nation is Elam - Iran (click here for a map) with Kir in Jordan uncovering the shield, and Babylon fallen, along with her false gods Isaiah 21:9. It shows Jerusalem tearing down houses to fortify the wall, rejoicing in her armour, but not looking to her maker, ignoring his call to repentance: "Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die" Isaiah 22:13. Typified in a minister, Shebnameaning "growth" but seen as one digging a spectacular grave.

Click here for a recent opinion poll, 93% of Jews in Israel placing their highest trust in Israel's Defence Forces.

With such self-centred nihilism, the Lord declares this perversity would only be purged by death, as Shebna's powerful battle tanks become the disgrace of his master's house. And God calls Eliakimliterally "God of resurrection" with words echoed in that promise to the church in Philadelphia of "laying the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, so he will open and none will shut, and he will shut and none will open" Isaiah 22:22.

The next chapter in Isaiah specifies how Tyre → Carthage collapses, see Isaiah 23 and Ezekiel 27, nor does the land of Egypt escape.

Tyre — Businesses and Politics

According to Jewish records, Tyre settled Carthage about 800BC and it became a mighty trading city. Carthage, spelt originally as Qart-Hadasht, means literally the "NewCity", the "New Meeting place", and is sometimes called the "Woman-City". Its Phoenician alphabet, derived from the Hebrew, spread throughout Europe for trading purposes, providing contracts for buying, for selling, for law: before and after an event. And thus with Jewish missionaries, tutors, and schools teaching basics of phonetics to the children of business people and political masters, adapting it to their local language, if God's people, also teaching about God to humble hearts. Good things. Followed by the Christian missionaries, doing the same, and teaching about Christ. Now in the past 100 years the script has become universal, via the League of Nations, the United Nations, in business and entertainment, in computers and smartphones, this "Roman", this Latin, now this English script.

See this article in relation to Tunisia, the modern day name for the place of ancient Carthage, the dawn of the so-called "Arab Spring" in 2011. And we see in Daniel, "He (i.e. the appointed enemy) shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps" Daniel 11:42-43

4018 BC: 2008 years of The Father: Revealing His goodness & strength to individuals — Love of God the Father towards all.The Father (the Creator of all): Adam to Abraham. From the Beginning.

2010 BC: 2008 years of The Son: Birthing (a nation) not by works but by faith - the Lord's grace inside it.Son Isaac (means "laughing")Click to see the links in Hebrew between "Son", "Build", "House" and "Stone". See too Psalms 118:22The Son (Spoken Word → Living Word): Isaac to Jesus. Ever Present.

2 BC: 2008 years of The Holy Spirit: Partnering with people who are outworking God's purposes — Fellowship of the Holy Spirit while awaiting God's coming justice.The Holy Spirit (Sealed) — the Pledge or earnest of belonging to the King:
Called the anointing, given to all who come as little children. 1 John 2:20
Heralding Christ to Heralding His Return. Future Hope.

Then in 1999, as Y2K (Year 2000) approached, many spoke of world wide economic calamity. In contrast, the sweeping deregulating that occurred with US Banks Securities and Insurance Companies — combined with major advances in VLSI technology that led to a worldwide "explosion" ofADSL and Cable Broadband Internet (ca 1998) then GPRS Mobile Internet (2000) — meant these last 7 years were seven years of unprecedented outward prosperity. Though within two years terrorists from Afghanistan declared war with that attack on the World Trade Centre in September 01. Horsemen two and threeWar and Trade.
Headed by Omar Mullah, Taliban leader, reigning over that devastated area where gospel missionaries are frequently executed. Horseman four leading to Seal five Devastation and Martyrdom.

Following Rosh Hashanah (Sept 4th) 2013, click Here for that US Debt crisis as the US Govt closed down on 1st October, 2013. And as the world reached 7 billion.

Balances with 6031 years. So, as clearly as anything may be seen for now where we judge through a glass darkly, click here for a picture initially glimpsed also on May 4 06.
Noting Paul's words: "Knowledge puffs up, but love builds the house. And if anyone figures they have seen anything, they have known nothing — not yet — as they ought to know. But if anyone loves God — seeks the building of God's house — this one has been known by Him." 1 Corinthians 8:1-3"Despise not prophecy. Examine everything, hold fast that which is good."1
Thessalonians 5:20-21"For we know in part and we prophesy in part."1
Corinthians 13:9

Seals 1-6

*Regarding the four horsemen (of the Apocalypse), we can see the first rider starting way back in 4000BC (1) Lord's finding heart faith — hidden/secret treasure in Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Joshua down to David: hiding it selling all and buying the field. The second rider 2,000BC (2) War & Division follows Babel and the confusion of tongues: in Israel we see Abraham's first son Ishmael following in his mother's footsteps and mocking Isaac, Moses striking the rock following Miriam's death and speaking bitterly to all, Saul's presumption of Samuel's priesthood role — all from time & people pressure. The third rider 500BC (3) Trading idolatry: Gold/Silver/Copper/Iron coinage, seen in Babylon, previewed in Saul's coveting of wealth followed by God's rejection and contrasted with Abraham's refusal to be indebted to the world Genesis 14 and Genesis 23. Finally the fourth rider 1,000 years later (4) Death and Hell: Terrorism, Intimidation, Devastation, Dark Ages over a quarter of the earth. Their capital becomes Baghdadclose by the now ancient city of Babylon.

Thus the four horsemen reflect not just the past 1,940 years (or so) since John wrote the Book of Revelation, but go right back to the Book of Genesis. For the non-believer, it can be seen in those famous stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, eventually, perhaps, comfort (Genesis 27:42).

And see too a similar picture Jesus showed regarding the four internal responses to the gospel in the parable of the sower in Matthew 13: "When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it, yet has he not root in himself, but is temporary: for when tribulation/social pressure or persecution/physical harassment arises because of the word, in time he is offended/tripped up (due to this warfare). He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the word, and the cares/distractions of this world, and the deceitfulness/delusions of riches and physical fullness choke the word and he becomes unfruitful (due to this wealth). But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it, which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty." Hallelujah.

Community-empowered (as opposed to privately-sponsored) schooling appears, training children up in the scriptures, arts and the law. Starts in Scotland (in 1496), spreads to Strasbourg and other German cities (in the 1500s), Massachusetts in the USA (in the 1600s), Prussia, Austria-Hungary, and Bohemia (in the 1700s), the rest of Europe and America, Australia and Japan (in the 1800s), Russia, China, and Muslim countries (in the 1900s) and finally all of India (in 2010) .

Click here for a list by Allianz of currency/stock/bonds owned by each country's residents - America currently showing €65 trillion.Click here for each country's government "debt" with investment in America (internally and externally) - click here - in May 2016 showing $19 trillion.
Currently about 87%, click here, of all currency transactions across the world involve the US dollar.Click here for each country's sovereign wealth funds (king was in his counting house) - America currently showing $142 billion.Click here for each country's foreign exchange reserves - America currently showing $121 billion.And click here for each country's official gold reserves - with 8133 tonnes, America currently valued at $380 billion, held by the US Federal Reserve. While these assets are technically owned by private shareholders (banks), note that by statute all profits or losses belong to the US Govt.

Comment from a friend"Note: The US not only holds the most gold but it represents 76% of their reserves. This means that whilst their dollar may not be backed by gold, they still understand its role as a potential storage of wealth in tough times. So, the US financial system is being hammered but as a country, any run on the gold price will help them (i.e. the federal reserve) to buy out the toxic debt and restabilise things. Look at the UK. Backs to a wall and no gold to play with...ouch."

And another friend's prayerful thought:"I think there are two currencies operating in the world: a) the currency of greed and corruption orchestrated by the world's international monetary system, and b) the currency of God's love revealed in Christ and extending Eternal Life to all who respond in faith to God's Call. I think this second currency operates 'under the radar' a lot of the time even though the world system tries to annex it through the institutionalisation of religion. But the Word of God grows and multiplies - Acts 12:24 - and wherever it grows and multiplies it brings blessing and peace and stability, in a measure, to the nations that do not actively war against it. Those that oppose it struggle massively with social degradation and economic impoverishment. I believe the uncharacteristic blessing that abides on Australia has come about because godly men and women have faithfully preached the Word over the time of our brief history. 'In Him was Life; and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not' John 1:4,5. "

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 11last version of Internet Explorer. IE has 17% global usage share (12% Australian share). Note, if you are running Windows XP, Internet Explorer 8 is the last compatible version.
Microsoft Edge which runs only on Windows 10 shows about a 6% market share.

These global statistics are from Netmarketshare in California, weighted by the CIA's Internet Traffic by Country table. According to them, China's huge 600 million users, Japan's 100 million users, and South Korea's 40 million users, skews the worldwide usage of Internet Explorer as it is held by many of the users over there.
The local Australian statistics are from StatCounter in Ireland. According to them, Mozilla Firefox was historically popular in Germany Iran and Indonesia, but Google Chrome, a fast browser with anti-virus blocking is now more popular day to day nearly everywhere, including here in Australia.

Click here for operating system popularity. According to StatCounter Windows 7 maintains the worldwide lead at 39%, though it has dropped. In China, in fact all Asia, usage of Windows 7 is just over 50%, in the US 28%, in Australia it's now down to 25%. Worldwide usage of Windows 10 is 31%, and in Australia it's now at 39%, past Windows 7. Third worldwide is Apple Mac's OS X on 11% and here there's quite a difference, China shows 3%, the US is on 20%, Australia's is 24%. Fourth worldwide is Windows 8.1 at 8%, fifth is Windows XP at 4% and sixth is Windows 8 at 2%. The final 5% is made up of various Unix-based systems, Windows Vista, and early Windows/DOS-based systems. Note that in China, Windows XP, though it's no longer supported, still holds a tidy share at 18%.

Worldwide PC desktop sales in the December 2016 quarter were †† 72 million units. Market leaders were Lenovo on 22%, HP a close second on 20%, followed by Dell on 15%, Asus on 7½% and Acer on 7%. Other companies followed.†† This statistic is from Gartner, January 11th 2017

With mobiles and tablets, Opera (in Africa), UC You Can Web (in China, India and Indonesia), Apple Safari (in Australia, US, UK and Japan) are dominant browsers. Everywhere Google Chrome retains its popularity.
Note too that while annual sales of mobile smartphones and tablets (running on chips designed by ARM Holdings, in iPad tablets, iPhones and Android smartphones and tablets) are now well over one billion units, the monthly browsing impact has only now gone past desktops when compared with total web traffic over the past 12 months, perhaps growing from 45 to 54% overall.Click here to see that graph contrasting worldwide mobile browser traffic with desktop browser traffic.Click here for a quarterly and annual sales breakdown of mobiles by country and manufacturer at the end of 2016. Regarding Apple, its quarterly iOS sales were about 20% of total sales in China, and 46% total sales in Australia. In actual quantities, Apple's reported sales worldwide were 5 million Macs, 13 million iPads and 78 million iPhones, again about 20% of all smartphones and tablets sold.

A recent analysis — News.com.au in July 2016 — estimated there are about 530 million active iPhones and 1.4 billion active Android phones. Currently, usage worldwide of iPhone/Safari is about 19%, and in Australia, 56%.

With regards to 64-bit vs 32-bit as Windows 7 gained momentum, a report in 2010 showed 46% of the worldwide installed base of Windows 7 running 64-bit, with 54% running 32-bit. This contrasted with Vista which had only 11% running 64-bit, and Windows XP with less than 1%. Today, all modern desktop computers are capable of running 64-bit Windows 7, 8 or 10.